- Senegal: Pols approve increased punishment for homosexual acts
Source: ABC News
“Senegal’s parliament has approved a new bill that toughens punishment for homosexuality in the largely Muslim West African nation, the latest African country to impose harsh penalties against the LGBTQ+ community. The new bill, which was introduced to parliament last month by Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, describes homosexual acts as being ‘against nature.’ It doubles the punishment for those convicted from prison sentences of one to five years to between five and 10 years. Nearly all lawmakers voted in favor of the bill during Wednesday’s plenary, with no opposition and three abstentions. It needs presidential assent before becoming a law, with Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye widely expected to sign it.” (03/12/26)
- CA: Attorneys for LA superintendent deny wrongdoing after FBI raid
Source: United Press International
“A superintendent in Los Angeles whose home and office was raided by the FBI last month released a statement Wednesday denying any wrongdoing. Attorneys for Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent who is on administrative leave following the raid, said in the statement that they hope he is reinstated promptly. Carvalho is the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. … The attorneys and FBI have not clarified why Carvalho’s home and office were raided or what sparked the investigation into the superintendent.” (03/11/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/03/11/los-angeles-superintendent-raid-statement/9261773262362/
- EU pols set to pretend they can stop AI “nudification” apps
Source: Politico
“Artificial intelligence systems that can generate sexualized deepfakes of real people would be banned in the EU under proposals seen by POLITICO. The push comes after X’s AI tool Grok allowed users to generate millions of images of real people in bikinis or fully nude, including images of children. A proposal set to be approved by EU ambassadors on Friday would make it illegal to market in Europe any artificial intelligence system that can generate non-consensual sexualized videos, images or audio files involving real people.” (03/11/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-grok-x-elon-musk-ai-nudification-ban-in-wake-of-scandal
- Six vessels attacked amid reports of Iranian drone boats, sea mines
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Explosive-laden Iranian boats appear to have attacked two fuel tankers in Iraqi waters, setting them ablaze and killing one crew member, after projectiles struck four vessels in Gulf waters, according to reports. The ships targeted in late-night attacks on Wednesday in the Gulf near Iraq were the Marshall Islands-flagged Safesea Vishnu and the Zefyros, which had loaded fuel cargoes in Iraq, two Iraqi port officials told the Reuters news agency. … Reuters said reports of the use of explosive-laden unmanned surface vessels, which Ukraine has used with great effect in its war with Russia, come as Iran has blocked oil shipments from transiting the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas transits but which has been blocked since the US-Israeli war on Iran began.” (03/12/26)
- Sources blame “outdated intelligence” for US regime’s mass murder of Iranian elementary school students
Source: Associated Press
“Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S military investigation into the incident. The bombing of the school and its casualties involving children has become a focal point of the war, and if ultimately confirmed to be at the hands of the U.S., would also stand among the highest civilian casualty events caused by the American military operations in the last two decades.” (03/11/26)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-school-hegseth-trump-2ffff06808f7a584b0a03831897ab0b8
- Colleges
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman“Having observed undergraduate education as an undergraduate, as a professor and as a parent visiting schools, I have some thoughts on the subject.” (03/11/26)
- A Dumb War Makes Trumpworld Dumber
Source: Mother Jones
by David Corn“War is an extreme action and, thus, triggers extreme reactions. Including extreme stupidity. It’s always disheartening — or ought to be — to see what should be a last resort comes to pass. It’s worse when a war is accompanied by cruelty, callousness, recklessness, and idiocy, though for obvious reasons that might be unavoidable. As for Trump’s war in Iran — which could well be an immense blunder — it has been enveloped in layers of excessive dumbness. I’m not talking about the strategic wisdom — or lack thereof — of this attack, which could precipitate calamities throughout the region and beyond. Or the madness of impulsively launching such a war without planning for what comes afterward. I’m referring to how it has prompted imbecility among its supporters, including at the White House.” (03/11/26)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/iran-war-trump-hegseth-graham-white-house-dumb-twitter/
- Capitalism in Inches and Pounds: A Parable
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson“The argument that capitalists are needed to provide workers with means of production, and profit is their reward for doing so, is nonsense. All capitalists have are paper or digital claims on the right to allocate means of production or material resources. All of the actual material resources — means of production and raw materials — are entirely the product of labor acting on free gifts of nature. The entire point at issue is the legitimacy of the process by which capitalists happen to be in possession of those paper or digital claims, and how workers come to be dependent on those claims.” (03/11/26)
- If Food Truck Reform Is Good for One County, It’s Good for All
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Patrick Tuohey“With Kansas City preparing to host matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Missouri lawmakers are considering a bill to simplify food truck licensing in Jackson County. The proposal would allow vendors licensed by the county to operate in any municipality without additional city permits. The change would remove a common barrier: multiple permits just to cross a city boundary. The idea makes sense. But if it will help entrepreneurs and visitors during the World Cup, why should the same principle not apply across Missouri?” (03/11/26)
- Alas, Poor Yorick
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“Working from home is a very old idea, becoming new again during this Age of the Internet. COVID made telework something of a mania. But there’s been some withdrawal of support for the arrangement from major corporations, and one of the main results of Elon Musk’s DOGE effort in government was to bring government workers back into the office. Well, sort of.” (03/11/26)
- We can’t afford US government
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal“The U.S. government, with its state and local affiliates, is a much greater threat to your life, liberty, and property than any foreign power in the past century. This includes the old Soviet Union. Which one takes a large percentage of your money before you even see it? Which one then takes more of your money every time you buy something, or demands it in ransom so you’re allowed to keep what you already own? Which one makes and enforces arbitrary rules about the way you’re allowed to live? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not Iran’s evil government. Right now, I’m not extorted to prop up an Iranian government, but if the U.S. government wins this fight, I will be.” (03/11/26)
- The Myth of “National” Resources
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman“The popular telling of the histories of Iran, Venezuela, and other countries, and their relevance to current U.S. policy, requires that we get something straight. While natural resources exist in such places, those resources do not naturally belong to the said country, people, or government. That would be collectivism and, thus, nonsensical. The proper owners of land and subsurface resources are those who discover and develop them, no matter where they were born or live. They are the Lockean owners (per John Locke’s homesteading principle). This means that someone from outside the territory could be the legitimate owner in a given case. Indigenous persons who had no role in the discovery and development have no natural claim based merely on their birth. That’s no achievement. The foregoing does not mean that outside entrepreneurs may morally disregard the Lockean property rights of indigenous individuals.” (03/11/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-national-resources
- Kibbe on Liberty, episode 376
Source: Free the People
“The War in Iran Is Going Badly | Guest: Kelley Vlahos.” (03/11/26)
- So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 03/11/26
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“Anthropic, age verification laws, and press freedom.” (03/11/26)
- TAC Right Now, 03/11/26
Source: The American Conservative
“The Iran Escalation Doom Loop.” (03/11/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tac-right-now-the-iran-escalation-doom-loop/
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2742
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Iran: Another Neocon Misadventure.” (03/11/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2742-iran-another-neocon-misadventure/
- Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“George Kennan, Moderate Realism, & Multipolarity w/ Michael F. Duggan.” (03/11/26)
- The Political Orphanage, 03/11/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
“A.I. and the Future of Scams.” (03/11/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/ai-and-the-future-of-scams